[Ep.18] Founders Spotlight: Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each month we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Gleb Budman, CEO and Co-Founder of Backblaze, will share his behind-the-scenes insight into what it's really like to found a tech startup.

Backblaze is a cloud storage and backup solutions for developers and IT teams. Backblaze stores over 150 petabytes of data, is profitable and won a spot on Deloitte's Fast 500 for 917% five-year revenue growth.

Gleb is founder of three companies, leader in two startups from pre-launch through acquisition, and a seasoned executive. He is on a mission to make storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In this episode, Ryan Ross interviews Richard C. Wilson of The Family Office Club, talking about the origins & challenges that arose in creating the company, and the value that The Family Office Club creates.

Richard C. Wilson helps $100M+ net worth families create and manage their single family offices and currently manages 14 clients including mandates with three billionaire families and as the CEO of a $500M+ single family office and Head of Direct Investments for another with $200M+ in assets.

Richard is author of the #1 bestselling book in the family office industry, The Single Family Office: Creating, Operating, and Managing the Investments of a Single Family Office and a recently released book called How to Start a Family Office: Blueprints for Setting Up Your Single Family Office. Richard has his undergraduate degree from Oregon State University, his M.B.A. from University of Portland, and has studied master’s level psychology through Harvard’s ALM program while previously residing in Boston. Richard currently resides 10 minutes from downtown Miami on the island of Key Biscayne, Florida with his wife and three daughters.

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK and Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, as they discuss the ins and outs of founding a tech company.

Topics include:

- Juggling the challenges of being a practitioner, sales rep, marketer and CEO simultaneously
- What to look for in a great vendor partnership
- Application security validation, its trends, and what to look out for

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Ash Seddeek will share how he channeled his entrepreneurial spirit into the launch of bestcash - a Fintech start up bringing a new point of view to financial services servicing 70-140k income earners.

Ash will answer questions about:

- What inspired him to start bestcash.
- What problem or pain points he aims to solve with bestcash.
- How to close the gap between financial services companies and their target users.
- How he plans to sustain bestcash's differentiation in order to appeal to customers and keep them coming back in the long term.

Join us for this live session where we encourage the audience to participate by asking Ash any live questions they may have!

In 2014, the founders of VerticalRent https://www.verticalrent.com were featured by Microsoft BizSpark for their early achievements with launching the industry leading rental property management and tenant screening https://app.verticalrent.com/quick-screen software platform for property managers and landlords. In that article, Microsoft wrote: Matt Angerer is an IT professional by day and a landlord by night. At all times, he has an entrepreneur’s heart and mindset.

A lot has changed since 2014. VerticalRent has more than quadrupled in the sheer number of landlords using the platform from every corner of the United States. The one thing that has not changed is that VerticalRent remains a small operation without employees that epitomizes the concept of a Lean Startup. If you're an IT professional by day who has been toiling with the idea of launching your own "side-gig", you'll want to tune into this BrightTalk webinar to learn how Matt Angerer, Founder of VerticalRent, started with a simple idea and scaled it into a platform that services over 25,000 landlords and nearly 50,000 renters across the United States in 5 short-years -- all while keeping his day job, running his rental properties, and financially supporting a family of 4.

Matt will share with you the techniques he learned that allowed him to balance his personal and professional life to create a software as a service business. In this Webinar, he'll cover:
- The Learn Start Up Mentality - What it Means and How to Live it Day by Day
- Why a Slow-Growth Approach is Better for Certain Personality Types
- How Anyone Can Create a SaaS Platform to Create Side Revenue
- Why SaaS is More Lucrative in the Long-Term than Consulting
- The Darkside of Entrepreneurship and Why Its Necessary

Join us on Wednesday, October 3rd at 9am PT / 12pm ET for this live interview!

Join this interview with Kelly Harris and Jean Ginzburg to discuss how to use digital marketing and social media to attract and connect with prospects. Find out what businesses should be doing to find the right prospects online and strategies to convert users into paying customers.

About the Founder:
Jean Ginzburg is a #1 best-selling author, serial entrepreneur, digital marketing expert with more than 10 years of industry expertise helping companies scale revenue, optimize sales and marketing processes and improve productivity. Jean is the CEO and Founder of JeanGinzburg.com, a digital marketing education company and Ginball Digital Marketing, a digital marketing agency. Jean's clients range from brand name Fortune 500 companies to innovative start-ups. Additionally, Jean is a contributing writer for AMEX Open Forum, Influencive and Authority Magazine. In July 2018, Jean was named a "Women to Watch" by Colorado Biz Magazine.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, which features insights from inspiring founders and entrepreneurs across multiple industries and communities.

In this episode, Chi Man Kwan, founder of the Raffles Family Office, a multi-family office with its own External Asset Management (EAM) platform already in private banks in Europe and Asia, will share his insight transitioning from banker to entrepreneur.

- Why family office/family business?
- Working for a bank vs working with a bank
- Where are the business model and investment opportunities?
- How to scale and grow in this competitive industry?

Mr Kwan will be taking questions from the live audience so this session will be an excellent opportunity for any entrepreneurs, wealth managers, private bankers and family office representatives out there to have their questions answered.

About the Speaker:
Chi Man Kwan is an experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Mr Kwan is skilled in Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Banking, Investments, and Financial Analysis. Mr Kwan is a strong entrepreneurship professional who has an Economics and Management science focused in Economics from Lancaster University.

Mr. Kwan has more than 15 years of banking and management experience in various international financial institutions including senior roles at BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered Bank.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each month we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Gleb Budman, CEO and Co-Founder of Backblaze, will share his behind-the-scenes insight into what it's really like to found a tech startup.

Backblaze is a cloud storage and backup solutions for developers and IT teams. Backblaze stores over 150 petabytes of data, is profitable and won a spot on Deloitte's Fast 500 for 917% five-year revenue growth.

Gleb is founder of three companies, leader in two startups from pre-launch through acquisition, and a seasoned executive. He is on a mission to make storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost.

In this episode of Founders Spotlight, Matthew Lamons and Paul Heirendt, Co-Founders of Skejul, share how they started the AI driven, Blockchain-protected Calendar Assistant application.

Skejul was named “Cool Vendor for Unified Communications 2017” by Gartner, Inc, and enables its users to set meetings in seconds without sharing calendars, bouncing emails, or disclosing private information. It also lets users see all planned and potential events in one place, on any device and lets you share your time, thoughts and activities with whoever you choose, wherever you are.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor and Founding Partner, Kumulus Technologies, will share his behind-the-scenes insight into what it's really like to found a tech startup.

Kumulus Technologies is at the forefront of the budding cloud computing, DevOps, containers and microservices industries. Robert has gone from Principal Cloud Architect at Cisco Systems, to CTO of cloud consultancy OneCloud Consulting, to founding and advising at Kumulus. Robert's professional background is at the intersection of tech and leadership, and he will share insights into founding and managing a cloud startup, as well as trends, technologies and cloud/DevOps vendors to watch in 2018.

Join us for this live AMA where the audience will be encouraged to ask questions and engage directly with the expert.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Charli Cohen will share how she took her background in fashion and wellness and eventually launched her eponymous technical fashion brand.

Charli will answer questions about:
-Learning on job and starting her first company whilst still studying
-The funding process -- from saving up, winning awards, and launching a Kickstarter campaign
-Taking things to the next level
-Standing out in a highly competitive industry

Join us for this live session where we encourage the audience to ask questions and get them answered by Charli live.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Doug Marschke will share his insight and expertise into the software-defined networking industry: what it means to found and run a consulting and managed services company, where the network industry is headed in the age of software-defined everything, and how to scale and grow a services organization in the hi-tech industry.

Join us for this live AMA where the audience will be encouraged to ask questions and engage directly with the panelists.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In this episode, Ryan Ross interviews Richard C. Wilson of The Family Office Club, talking about the origins & challenges that arose in creating the company, and the value that The Family Office Club creates.

Richard C. Wilson helps $100M+ net worth families create and manage their single family offices and currently manages 14 clients including mandates with three billionaire families and as the CEO of a $500M+ single family office and Head of Direct Investments for another with $200M+ in assets.

Richard is author of the #1 bestselling book in the family office industry, The Single Family Office: Creating, Operating, and Managing the Investments of a Single Family Office and a recently released book called How to Start a Family Office: Blueprints for Setting Up Your Single Family Office. Richard has his undergraduate degree from Oregon State University, his M.B.A. from University of Portland, and has studied master’s level psychology through Harvard’s ALM program while previously residing in Boston. Richard currently resides 10 minutes from downtown Miami on the island of Key Biscayne, Florida with his wife and three daughters.

Andy Kriebel, Head Coach and Tableau Zen Master at The Data School & Eva Murray, Head of BI and Tableau Zen Master at Exasol

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series, featuring fearless entrepreneurs and inspiring founders.

In this episode, Eva Murray & Andy Kriebel, Founders of Makeover Monday, will share their story of how they started the social data project, Makeover Monday, the challenges and successes they encountered along the way and how they overcame them.

This will be an interactive Q&A session and an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs or professionals to have their questions answered.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In the eighth episode of this series, Harriet Jamieson interviews Dr. Mik Kersten, founder and CEO of Tasktop.

Mik, who has been voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker twice and is creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project, will share how he founded Tasktop. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils.

Mik will share his expertise and take live audience questions on software development tools, productivity tools, application lifecycle management, Agile, Eclipse, Mylyn and Java.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In the seventh episode of this series, Harriet Jamieson interviews Jeff Rumburg, founder of MetricNet and recipient of the 2014 Ron Muns Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the IT Service and Support industry.

Jeff’s education includes an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, an M.S. magna cum laude in Operations Research from Stanford University, and a B.S. magna cum laude in Mechanical Engineering. He is author of A Hands-On Guide to Competitive Benchmarking: The Path to Continuous Quality and Productivity Improvement, is a renowned ITSM speaker, and thought leader, and has taught graduate-level engineering and business courses. He was previously Vice President at Gartner.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In this episode, Kelly Harris interviews Laura Schewel of Streetlight Data about the origins & challenges that arose in creating the company, the value that Streelight Data creates, and other topics including:

- The status quo of the transportation industry and how Streetlight Data is disrupting it
- How Laura identified the gap in the market that Streelight Data is filling
- How big data and analytics are underutilized and the untapped possibilities and potential
- Trends in big data analytics and how these platforms can reshape every industry
- How the transportation industry has changed and where it's headed

..and much more!

Tune in on March 14th @ 11am PT / 2pm ET for live Q&A or watch on-demand thereafter.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In this episode, Seth Worby of Champ Internet Solutions talks about the origins & challenges that arose in creating the company, the value that Champ Internet Solutions creates, and other topics.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. In this episode, Ryan Ross interviews Oren Kaplan of SharingAlpha about the origins & challenges that arose in creating the company, and the value that SharingAlpha creates, and other topics including:

- The "status-quo" that SharingAlpha overturns.
- How Oren identified the gap in the market that SharingAlpha filled.
- How "The Wisdom of Crowds" works.
- Oren's theory on social media.
- How Behavioural Finance has influenced SharingAlpha's underlying philosophy.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series, featuring fearless entrepreneurs and inspiring founders.

In this episode, Bobbie Carlton, Founder of Innovation Women, will share her story of how she got started her company, the challenges she encountered along the way and how she overcame them.

This will be an interactive Q&A session and an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs or professionals to have their nagging questions answered.

About the Speaker:
Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Innovation Women, a new model speaker’s bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women. The company helps connect women with event managers looking for speakers, panelists, moderators and presenters, especially for industry conferences and events. In 2010 Bobbie was named one of the “Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community.”

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